Improvement in bee-hives



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NITED- STATES 'PATENT trice.

WILLIAM HARDEN, or oHAniroN, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT iN BEE-HivEs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 44,305, dated September 20, 1564,.

To @ZZ whom 136 may concern:

Be it known that `l, WILLIAM HARDEN, of Ghariton, in the county of Lucas and State of Iowa, have invented a new' and Improved Bce-House or Bee-Palace; and I do hereby declare that'the following is a full, clear, and

`exact description of the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, `making a part of this specification, in which- Eignre 1 is a front sectional view ot' in v invention taken-,in the'line .r fr, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a transverse vvertical section of the same taken in the line y y, Fig. 1.

Simi-lar letters o reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

This invention -relates to a new and iinproved -hee-house or bee-palace, and is designed to prevent the swarming ot bees, and also to protect. them from the moth, as well vaste `allor-d facilities for feeding thebees and rem'ovingthe spare honey from the house or palace. A A' To `enable thoseskilled inthe art to fully 'understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

The bee-house or bee palace is composed of .two vertical sides, a et, provided with a dat or -horizontal'top, b, and' an inclined bottom, c,

the latter being some distance above the lower 'ends of the sides a a, which rest upon the ground or flooring. Y The front edges ofthe sides a a have .an'inclined oft' set, d, to which a board or cover, e,is attached to form a spacev or compartment in front, which is divided into spaces by partitions f, between thefront parts ot' which vertical slides g are fitted, having openings h in their lower parts, which are covered with wire-cloth t'. '.lhe back of this bee-house or bee-palace is provided with-doors j for the convenience of putting in and taking ont the hives A. These hives are equal in Width to the spaces between the partitions j'. They are open at their bottoms, and their front ends are deeper than those at their rear, in order that they inayeonforin to the inclination of the bottom 'c and have their tops k i-n a horizontal position. (SeeFig. 2.) The hives A'do not extend into the front compartments or spaces formed by the partitions j', and upon A each hive there is placed a spare honey-box,

B, and they may be placed in the house or removed therefrom above. the inclined'board or cover e. Each hive, as well as its spare honeybox, is provided at its rear end with a glass, l, and with a veiitilatingopeniiig, m, inits front eiid. In the iop kof each hive A there is made an oblong opening, n, by which the bees have access to the spare'honey boxes,

and these openings n may be closed, when necessary or desired, by means ot' slides o. Openingsp are also made in the sides of the hives A at their lower ends to aitord a-cominunication between the-several hives, andthesc openings may also be clos'edby slides r, when desired. The hiveshave also a bee-entrance, s, in the lower ends of their fronts.y

From the above description it will be seen that at evening, when the slides g are down or closed, that the bees may be fully provided with air and s till be perfectly protected fro'in the moth, whose visits are nocturnal, .aaid'it1 will also be seen that the bees may be t'ed by placing their food inthe compartments ci: spaces between thepa'rtitions j' and closing the slides g and be perfectly protected from robbers.

The bee-entrances s are each provided with a door, n, and I design to have about foar -hives in each house or palace andl have them are above the boardor cover ve ot the coinpartments, and are fully exposed for theirv ready removal from and insertion within the house or palace, substantially as herein set forth.

'\VILLIAM H ARDEN.

Witnesses ROBERT MoUoRMIcK, E. K. GIBBoN. 

